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Colon and rectal cancers were once thought to be disease of old age Since 2000, rates among Americans under 50 have surged by 51 percent Because it is often misdiagnosed, colorectal cancer has proved deadly for an alarming number of people in their 20s and 30s Now, the American Cancer Society is urging people to start getting screened at age 45, rather than 50 Read More at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5787069/American-Cancer-Society-lowers-bowel-screening-age-45.html

Black women are two to three times more likely than white women to get an aggressive type of breast cancer called triple negative breast cancer, which comes back after treatment, and for which there are still no approved targeted treatments.

The American Cancer Society projects the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths expected each year in order to estimate the contemporary cancer burden, because cancer incidence and mortality data lag three to four years behind the current year.